A92147:571
A treatise of civil policy
A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and privilege, in reference to the supreme prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divinity of St Andrews in Scotland.A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and priviledge, in reference to the supream prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divintiy of St Andrews in Scotland.
London, : Printed and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard near the West end., 1657 i.e. 1656
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Ans. That the Persian Monarchy was absolute, is but a facto ad jus, and no rule of a lawful Monarchy, but that it was absolute, I believe not. Darius who was an absolute Prince (as many think)1 but (I think not) would gladly have delivered Daniel from the power of a Law, and Dan. 6. 14. And he set his heart on Daniel to deliver him, and he laboured till the going down of the Sun to deliver him, and was so sorrowful, that he could not break through a Law, that he interdicted himself of all pleasures of Musicians, and if ever he had used the absoluteness of a Prerogative Royal, I conceive he would have done it in this, yet he could not prevail: But in things not established by Law, I conceive Darius was absolute, as to me is clear, Daniel 6. v. 24. but absolute not by a Divine Law, but, De facto, quod transierat in jus humanum, by fact, which was now become a law.
Ans. That the Persian Monarchy was absolute, is but a facto ad jus, and no rule of a lawfull Monarchy, but that it was absolute, I beleeve not. Darius who was an absolute Prince (as many think)1 but (I thinke not) would gladly have delivered Daniel from the power of a Law, and Dan. 6. 14. And he set his heart on Daniel to deliver him, and he laboured till the going downe of the Sun to deliver him, and was so sorrowfull, that he could not breake through a Law, that he interdicted himselfe of all pleasures of Musitians, and if ever he had used the absolutenesse of a Prerogative Royall, I conceive he would have done it in this, yet he could not prevaile: But in things not established by Law, I conceive Darius was absolute, as to me is cleare, Daniel 6. v. 24. but absolute not by a Divine Law, but, De facto, quod transierat in jus humanum, by fact, which was now become a lrw.
- 1The King of Persia not absolute.